Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 55

"And the lotus-flower which I was to take with me," said the Egyptian princess, "is flying here by my side, clothed in swan's feathers.

Who acts: Egyptian princess · What happens: be, say, fly, clothe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptian princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
4	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 lotus	punct
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 take	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 take	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 flower	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
18	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 princess	amod
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 flying	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 flying	aux
23	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 flying	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 side	nmod:poss
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clothed	punct
29	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 flying	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 feathers	case
31	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 feathers	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 swan	case
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 clothed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the Egyptian princess = princess		with the Egyptian princess = princess; take property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Egyptian princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fly in a quote	present · progressive	the Egyptian princess not said here	here	by my side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location
4	clothe in a quote	participle	the Egyptian princess not said here		in swan's feathers	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in feather=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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